china blue

or China blue

noun

1. a bright greenish blue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of china blue¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

I remembered the big chap with the China-blue eyes and the great mop of tangled fair hair.

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Mrs. Home turned her pretty, china-blue eyes on to him, with a sort of diminutive air of dignity.

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She was attired in a China-blue linen frock with a scarlet sash knotted in front quite daringly, for Phillida.

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His small china-blue eyes had begun to glint; otherwise he maintained an air of stolidity as if immune to the outcome.

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His heavy face, with those thick pursed lips and small china blue eyes, changed not a jot.

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